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Strange times as Tinga boards wheelbarrow, but how far will ride go?

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A large wheelbarrow at the United Democratic Alliance Centre in Nairobi. [Wilberforce Okwiri,Standard]

Logically, it would have been the wheelbarrow boarding the tractor and not the other way around. But politics is hardly ever logical. It is mostly transactional and with the right price, even tingas can be made to fit atop wheelbarrows.

In this instance, the price seems to have been some shares in Kenya Kwanza Limited and, possibly, an air-conditioned office in Addis Ababa. But haters say the price was the lives of brave Gen Zs and Millennials killed while championing good governance.

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